The business benefits of health and safety

Overview

All organisations are aware of business costs, especially in these difficult times, and health and safety is often seen as a significant and unwarranted drain on resources.

If your strategy is sound, this isn't true, but it can be difficult to make a solid business case for what you want to do. This event will help you justify your spending and prove that health and safety is good business.

Refreshments will be available from 12.30.

Speakers

• Mark Wilson: Member of the Policy and Strategy team of the Health, Work and Well-being Directorate of Department for Work and Pensions.
• Hugh Kempton: Safety Manager for CHEP UK & Ireland

Hugh will present CHEP’s introduction of a Behavioural Observation System and its benefits to the organisation.

Mark will present the DWP view on the business case for good health and safety practices.

Since joining DWP 2 years ago, Mark has been involved in producing and implementing the Government's response to the Black review. He has worked on many of the mental health and employment initiatives, particularly the National Mental Health and Employment Strategy, the project to embed Employment Advisors in IAPT  and DWP's input into PSA 16. He was also part of the DWP team responsible for the Perkins review last year.

Prior to joining DWP, Mark worked on the cross-Government Health, Work and Well-being Delivery Unit, supporting Carol Black during her review. Before that, he spent 3 years working at HSE.